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Hope Lyons

Director of Program Management  |  Rockefeller Brothers Fund


Hope A. Lyons is director of program management for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In this capacity she works with staff across the Fund to ensure strategic management of its grantmaking and program operations. Within this role she oversees the Fund’s grants management, program operations, and grants-related knowledge management work. She also leads the Fund’s philanthropic stewardship grantmaking portfolio, which supports the field of philanthropy and leading practices in the nonprofit sector. Ms. Lyons started her career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Romania where she worked on microcredit and business training initiatives. Prior to joining the Fund, she was the grants manager at the Commonwealth Fund. She has worked on a range of economic development projects in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia supported by USAID, the World Bank, the United Nations Capital Development Fund, and the Asian Development Bank, and coordinated activities related to the 2002 Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid in conjunction with the International Longevity Centre, an alliance of organizations committed to help societies address longevity and population ageing in positive and productive ways. Ms. Lyons holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics and international studies from The Johns Hopkins University as well as a Master of Public Administration from New York University, with a concentration in international development and financial management. Active in the nonprofit sector, she has served on a number of boards and committees, including most recently the Committee for Equitable and Inclusive Philanthropy of Philanthropy New York and the Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy, and is the co-chair for Philanthropy New York’s International Grantmakers’ Network.

New York

Term expires 2020